[Leica] Canon Introducs 2 new digital SLRs

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

I've been under the impression (possibly dubious) that all current
cameras do an 8 bit capture of data from the sensor for each color.

For any pixel, however, being a combination of color sites, you'll
need more than 8 bits to deal with the full dynamic range which is
captured in 12 bits. However, there aren't many 12 bit color image
file  formats so they are converted to 16 bits  -  no data lost but
nothing gained either except in that initial blending of 8 bit color
sites to 12 bit pixels.

Is the DMR different from this?

Thanks

Adam